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Middle Jurassic Rocks on the Ulakhan-Sis Ridge (Sakha Republic): Biostratigraphy, Lithological Features, and Depositional Environments

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The age and depositional environments of Middle Jurassic terrigenous rocks crowning the Mesozoic section on the northeastern flank of the Nagondzha terrane within the Ulakhan-Sis Ridge are discussed. Based on our finds of retrocerams and the analysis of biostratigraphic data of predecessors, the Bajocian–Middle Bathonian age of these rocks is accepted. Three lithologically different sequences are identified in the section. Sandstones from the lower unit belong to feldspathic litharenites; from the upper sequences, to litharenites dominated by extrabasinal carbonate clastics (calclithites). The analysis of structural-textural features, mineralogical-petrographic composition, and distribution of trace elements in litharenites suggests that all these sequences were deposited in the shelf part of paleobasin associated with an active volcanic island arc, which presumably existed since the Early Jurassic on the Omulevka Craton terrane until the termination of the Kolyma–Omolon superterrane formation.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the entire staff of the Small-Scale Regional Geological Survey Sector in the Far Eastern Federal District (Moscow Branch, Karpinsky All-Russia Research Institute of Geology) for the discussion and constructive comments during the material preparation. We express special gratitude for high professionalism to I.A. Kotov (Head of the Olenegorsk Geological Party) for the field work organization in 2020 and to geologists E.D. Kotova, I.V. Abramov, and I.V. Sysoev for the participation in expedition. We are also grateful to M.A. Rogov for the consultations and valuable comments.

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Analytical works were supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no.P20-17-00197-P. The main financial support was provided in accordance with the State Task of the Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

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Kostyleva, V.V., Lutikov, O.A., Gertseva, M.V. et al. Middle Jurassic Rocks on the Ulakhan-Sis Ridge (Sakha Republic): Biostratigraphy, Lithological Features, and Depositional Environments. Lithol Miner Resour 59, 314–329 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490224700512

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